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Midwives working at night have to rely on a dim, flickering light (Barnes and Floor, 1996; Barnett, 1990). In addition, women are also the ones who scavenge for firewood or transport kerosene, often in inhospitable terrain. Thus, besides being a health risk, this is also a tremendous loss of productivity for the village; as women in these villages are forced to spend more and more time in search of diminishing fuel sources. In the UN Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), several promising solutions were described for providing electricity and cooking gas for rural communities.

5 billion people live without access to 34 Rural Development – Contemporary Issues and Practices electricity (World Bank, 1996: 1; IMF and World Bank, 2006: vi). Access to modern energy services and electricity is low in many developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia (see table 1 for details). If the MDGs are to be achieved in these parts of the world, then significant efforts are needed to bring rural areas out of energy poverty. This can be done in two ways: increasing access to energy for domestic use – essentially increasing access to technologies which use modern fuels or make use of traditional fuels in cleaner, safer and more environmentally sound ways – and increasing access to electricity (UNCTAD, 2010).